Who's your daddy?

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I wasn't really anything beyond Christian by association, and I think that's good enough for a "never."

Like I said in the OP, belief is not necessary, but the heavy exposure is what we are looking for.  I think church every sunday counts.

The purpose of the poll and the thread is to show the christians that we have been there and done that. They seem to think that we are talking out our ass.  Some have commented often that "if you guys had only ...". Well. we have heard all their cute little Sunday church stories and whether or not we believed at the time, the stories only pushed us away. (Especially when we started asking questions in public   )

I love it when someone pulls that "you should try reading the bible" crap on Matt D

I was lucky enough not to be raised religious. I wasn't raise "atheist" as such, I wasn't told to think any particular way. In that way at least, my parents did a good job. I came into contact with it at my first school, where there was compulsory prayer and other vague religious stuff going on throughout the year. I was even Joseph in the nativity play! But to me it was obvious even then that it was all just some weird story, and I was struggling to understand why some people were taking it seriously. That's the benefit of an un-indoctrinated mind.